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SQUASH 2001
SQUASH 2001
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This is our Top Ten for
2001.
Use
the World Squash Forum to discuss,
or add your own candidates or categories. |
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Top Player |
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here - losing just once, and sweeping all before her, even the WISPA
computer finally had to bow before the absolute superiority shown by Sarah
Fitz-Gerald. She set herself four goals, achieved them all, and did much,
much more for the game along the way.
As the latest advert says,
"there isn't much you can say to someone who's won everything
in the game ... CONGRATULATIONS is a start!" |
www.sarahfitz-gerald.com |
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Photo |
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You'll believe she can fly ... by
Stephen Line
hundreds more on
www.squashpics.com |
Other contenders
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Man |
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Not quite
sweeping all before him, but Peter Nicol recovered from every setback
and pitfall, and finished the year with an impressive array of trophies,
still World Champion, and regained the world number one status at the death.
England's gain, but he's still very much a Scot, and a credit to both
nations and the game of squash
www.pnsquash.com |
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Match |
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Jonathon Power
v David Palmer,
Super Series semi-finals.
Live on television, brilliant
squash, disputes, falls, arguments, 15-14 in the fifth after 99 minutes of
pulsating action ... just get the video!
www.squashplayer.co.uk/superseries |
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Tourney |
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Marketing |
The Qatar
Classic had it all - huge (for squash) prize money, spectacular setting,
great organisation, all the top players - a deserved success, and the likely
venue for the Women's World Open next year.
www.qatarclassic.com
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Botwright
mania was the media story of the year. Congratulations to Andrew Shelley
for thinking it up, Stephen Line for taking the shots, and of course to
Vicky herself, without whom none of it would have been possible.
Vicky appeared in pretty much any paper you could care to
mention, was one of the Sunday Times' "People of the Week", was in the News
of the World "Sin Bin", and made Lycos's list of top 50 searched for
athletes of 2001.
www.vickybotwright.com |
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Team |
Top
Achiever |
| Aussie,
Aussie, Aussie. A British Open double, a clean sweep in Melbourne, both world number ones, and a
band of rising stars in the PSA and WISPA ranks.
www.squash.org.au
Courtesy
Jo Morgan & Dave Mayhew
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In the week
before his 34th birthday, Chris Walker played the match of his life, and
kept on doing it, falling just one game short of an impossible dream. Went
one better later that month, winning the US professional championships.
www.chris.walker.net
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Celebrations |
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Danish Delight |
Egyptian Ecstasy |
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Top Site |
Top Quote |
With well over
a million hits in its first year of operation (although Vicky runs it
close), top site has to be
www.worldsquash.org
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"I set myself four targets for the year -
British, Australian, Worlds and Number One." Sarah Fitz-Gerald
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